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names of all persons refused registration, and of all persons whose names
are erased from the registry.*
1898, ch. 2, sec. 270Q. 1918 Code, sec. 367.
342. Any voter shall be permitted to be present at the place of regis-
tration in any precinct of said city, and shall have the right to challenge-
any applicant, and when challenged such applicant shall be carefully
questioned by the board of registry touching the facts which entitled him
to register in such precinct, and thereupon, if a majority of the board
is convinced that such applicant is a qualified voter, he shall be entered
as qualified. Any person claiming to be a voter of any precinct, and who,
upon application, is denied the right to be registered as a qualified voter
in said precinct, may make and sign an application in writing under oath
to the Court as hereinafter provided, in substance in the following form:
"I, ....... do solemnly swear that I did, on ....... make application
to the board of registry of the ...... precinct of the City of Frederick,
and that said board refuse to register me as a qualified voter in said pre-
cinct; that I am a duly qualified voter entitled to vote in said precinct
at the next election."
189S, ch. 2, sec. 270R. 1918 Code, sec. 368. 1922, ch. 112, sec. 368.
343. On the Tuesday four weeks preceding such regular election, and
on the Wednesday next following said Tuesday, said board of registry
shall again meet at the place designated and shall remain in session during
the hours prescribed in Section 341, for the purpose of registering all
qualified voters not before registered who shall apply in person to be
registered, and also for the purpose of noting the names of any persons
on such registry whom they suspect not to be qualified voters. The same
forms shall be observed as to the applications ma.de on these days as were
required on the former days of registration. If any voter of the city shall
go before the board of registry, during such sessions and make oath that
he believes any specified person upon such registry is not a qualified voter,
such fact shall be noted. At the end of the registration for each of these
days, the registers shall be examined, compared and made to agree, and
they shall then be signed immediately, under the last name registered,
under each letter in the same way, as hereinbefore provided.
1898, ch. 2, sec. 270S. 1918 Code, sec. 369.
344. Before separating on the last day said board of registry shall
make out a list with the registered address of all those who have been
registered as qualified voters, whom either one of the officers of registra-
tion suspects not to be qualified voters, or against whom any voter of the
*In the case of Edward Mitchell Johnson v. Chas. A. Six et al., Board of Regis-
try, etc., 2684 Miscellaneous Docket, in the Circuit Court for Frederick County, the
court decided that section 325 prescribes the qualifications of a voter, and that
the qualifications superimposed by section 341 are in conflict with the 15th
Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and are void. The qualifica-
tions for voting as before the passing of section 341 still stand.
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